A media website complaints system arrives
Friday, February 15th, 2013OMSA – the Online Media Standards Authority – is being launched soon. It already has a website, and a code of standards. Looks like it will be operative on, hmmm, April 1. This is a self-regulation effort by all our major broadcasters, who are looking to fill a gaping chasm in the media regulatory landscape: the […]
Parting the clouds
Friday, February 15th, 2013Befogged by this cloud computing stuff? The Privacy Commissioner offers some advice.
Speaking of irresponsible statements by NZ First MPs…
Thursday, February 14th, 2013In this Campbell Live interview about Richard Prosser’s idiotic column, NZ First leader Winston says this (denying that NZ has a successful multicultural society): Right now, we have a review commission going on about a Constitution to make the Treaty of Waitangi the cornerstone of our future Constitution. This is – how shall I put […]
Heal thyself
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013Responding to his MP Richard Prosser’s Investigate column about banning all Muslims from airplanes, did Winston Peters really say this? I’ve told him he cannot have a view that doesn’t have the balance in the other side of the argument. Where on earth does that come from? This was an opinion column. By a politician. Neither […]
The Official Information Act: should it be reformed?
Friday, January 25th, 2013It was the great philosopher T’pau, I think, who said: “Don’t push too far, your dreams are china in your hands.” I sometimes feel that way about our Official Information Act. It’s easy to dream of improvements. Requesters would like to see an end to game-playing when they make politically sensitive requests. They’d like the […]
We don’t need no stinking press regulation
Thursday, December 6th, 2012The Herald’s lawyer, Alan Ringwood, argues that we don’t need any statutory press regulation in NZ. Don’t listen to Levenson, he says. We don’t need to go there. (Full article here). I guess it’s not a news flash that the Herald’s lawyer would oppose statutory restrictions on the Herald. But I’m interested in his argument. […]
Settling down
Friday, November 16th, 2012So Judith Collins has sensibly settled her lawsuit against Trevor Mallard and Andrew Little. Here’s the agreed statement: The parties agree the leak of the email Ms Boag sent to the Minister and forwarded on her instructions, as the responsible minister, to the chairman and chief executive of ACC, raised an issue of serious public […]
Greg King (1969-2012)
Monday, November 5th, 2012There are two New Zealanders whose untimely deaths have left me with a profound sadness, not just for them and their families, but also for the rest of us, because we’ve been deprived of the contribution they would have continued to make. One was Rod Donald. The other is Greg King. Most people know Greg […]
Bouquet
Monday, October 29th, 2012Media Watch’s Colin Peacock did a particularly excellent job this week in holding the media’s feet to the fire about its reporting on the firestorm about bail laws.
Breaking Laws
Thursday, October 18th, 2012Michael Laws has been found in breach of broadcasting standards yet again, ironically for comparing someone else to a Pit Bull.
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